After quitting her job as a teacher, this woman traveled to 95 countries and turned traveling into a career

• Lisa Niver was a teacher before quitting her job to work on a cruise ship.• She's since been to 95 countries, founded We Said Go Travel, and wrote a travel memoir.• She believes a traveler's attitude and outlook shape their experiences, and that staying positive is key.

Traveling hasn't always been easy for Lisa Niver. You wouldn't know it from watching her 600+ videos and reading her insights on We Said Go Travel, but she's had to overcome vision problems and her biggest fear in order to have some of her best adventures.

Through her work as a teacher, she found that a positive outlook and a can-do attitude could take her more places than she imagined — 95 countries, to be exact.

When Renaissance Cruises went bankrupt, she opted for low-budget travel, backpacking through Southeast Asia for 11 months.

Niver then returned to teaching, traveling when she could and sharing her experiences with her students.

"There's so much about traveling that people want to share," she said. "They enjoy having the experience, but they want other people to know about it. One of the best things I started to do when I was in the classroom was share my travels with my students."

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She told her students about gers she saw in Mongolia, and months later they recalled the round structures in a unit about architecture.

Traveling has come with its fair share of challenges for Niver, but that hasn't stopped her from visiting 95 countries.

She has intermittent esotropia, a condition that impairs her vision and makes it difficult to navigate unfamiliar places.

"There's a lot of choices I've made traveling over the years, where I travel with a group, like on a cruise ship, or in a certain pattern, which, looking back, is the only way I could accommodate [the esotropia]," she said.

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"That's been a huge thing to overcome," she said. "Getting lost and being a traveler is not that great a combination, but I kept going."

She's seen how a mindset can shape one's experience both in and out of the classroom and continues to propel herself forward into new adventures.

"If I was having a bad day or if I was really tired, the energy in the room would be different because they feed off of the way the teacher sets the environment," she said. "That's something I've noticed with travelers and for myself traveling."

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"One of the main things I've learned over the years is if you're open to it working out, it will," she said. "You find what you're looking for."